by Carolyn Bickford
We’ve now been living in Tennessee for just over a year, and it’s beginning to feel more like home. I may be redundant, but it is still disorienting that we now drive to the family (in Columbus, Ohio and Gettysburg,…
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We’ve been living in Tennessee for almost a year now. Just this summer, I’ve gone ziplining through the woods at Fontanel, saw Foster the People at the legendary Ryman Auditorium, ate a chocolate covered cricket at the county fair, done…
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We have unpacked one 16 foot POD and two smaller 7 foot PODS, so our house isn’t completely bare on the inside. It’s chaotic as we continue to unpack (and wait for new carpet in the bonus room/Pete’s new office),…
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I have now lived in Tennessee for almost a month, but my mind continues to be blown every day. I went to a local Toastmasters meeting yesterday. My former group was an Improv Toastmasters group, and a more experienced…
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I knew Tennessee would be different from California, but only now am I beginning to think I am in an alternate reality. When it comes to lifestyle, I love this place. Less than a mile from my house, there…
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Note this post was originally written on October 28. Our realtor texted us to ask how our travel was going after we’d wired our money to the title company. Knowing she was from Kentucky, I told her we’d be going…
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We arrived in Gettysburg Pennsylvania near midnight, but we have a free and very comfortable place to stay with Peter’s parents for the next few days. In the morning, we asked the sellers of the house we like to fix…
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After putting in our earnest money and taking a drive by the house we’d just bought, we headed to Murfreesboro, a town about 30 minutes away to check in to our Airbnb. The lifestyle here is indeed different from the…
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On Friday morning, we found out that our offer on a 3200 square foot house on an acre of land in Franklin had been accepted. We have an inspection on Sunday, and if that goes well, we could pay for…
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There comes a time when one tires of being on the road. Austin and Dallas were great, but as we pulled out, I also understood the satiric commentary in the Austin Lounge Lizard’s “Stupid Texas Song.” (You must look it…
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